- From: Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:27:05 -0500
- To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Cc: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
On Mon, 2022-01-03 at 09:04 -0700, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > > > > On 3,Jan2022, at 8:11 AM, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org> > > wrote: > > ... > > If someone wants malformed XML as output, maybe that should be > > allowed > > too? > > That doesn’t appeal very much to me. I *think* that is motivated by > general principles of interoperability and clarity (‘intentionally > malformed > output that looks like XML’ will surely be described as XML by people > who don’t care about the details), and not *solely* by the fact that > for > my processor to produce non-XML output would be tedious. A legitimate example might be people choosing to lie and say they are producing XML when they're producing e.g. an apache conf file (no top level element). > I think if someone knows what they are doing well enough to be > taken seriously when they say they want malformed output, they > probably know how to make a well-formed version of their data that > captures the information they want. You're probably right. > > Michael > > -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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